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The Regal Kai Tak Hotel, rebuilt from photos

The airport hotel across Prince Edward Road East now has its real L-shaped plan, glass bands, brick ends, podium terrace and name.

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A long dark hotel slab of glass and brown bands on a brick podium, its brick end wall carrying vertical Chinese characters, a footbridge leaving over the road.
The Regal Kai Tak Hotel from over the car park.

The hotel across Prince Edward Road East from the car park has been rebuilt from photos and a roof plan of the real building, the Regal Kai Tak Hotel. It now carries its own name, 富豪啟德酒店, down the end wall and REGAL KAITAK HOTEL across the podium.

A long dark hotel slab of glass and brown bands on a brick podium, its brick end wall carrying vertical Chinese characters, a cable-stayed footbridge leaving over the road to the right.
From over the car park: the road face, the named end wall and the footbridge.

The shape

  • Plan: a long slab along the road with a wide wing running back to Sa Po Road at its north-east end, and both ends cut at an angle, as on the roof plan.
  • Tower: continuous bands of dark tinted glass and brown spandrels on every long face, solid brick end walls with a column of small windows, and a deep brown cornice.
  • Podium: brick, with a dark glazed band over the shopfronts, the hotel name across the road face and a planted terrace along the road.
  • Roof: flat, with plant units and a round tank.
Looking straight down on the hotel roof: a long arm along the road and a wider wing at one end, the footbridge crossing the road to the car park.
The roof plan from above, with the footbridge to the car park.
The back of the hotel from Kowloon City, the wing and the long slab forming an L, with the car park, the terminal and the runway beyond.
From the Kowloon City side, with the airport behind.

The footbridge and the night

The covered footbridge now meets the podium near its north-east end, as in the photos. At night the rooms light up at random and the name on the end wall and the podium glows.

The hotel at night: scattered warm and cool lit windows, the hotel name glowing across the podium, the footbridge in the dark.
At night: lit rooms and the glowing name.

Sources: photos and a roof plan of the Regal Kai Tak Hotel, and Gwulo's page on the Kai Tak Airport Hotel Footbridge.

停車場對面、太子道東另一邊嘅酒店，而家根據真實大廈富豪啟德酒店嘅相片同天台平面圖重新起過。端牆直寫「富豪啟德酒店」，平台前面橫寫 REGAL KAITAK HOTEL。

一座長形深色酒店，玻璃同啡色橫帶相間，企喺磚砌平台上，磚牆端面直寫中文字，右邊有條斜拉式行人天橋過馬路。
喺停車場上面望：臨街嗰面、寫住名嘅端牆同行人天橋。

外形

  • 平面：一條長樓沿住馬路，東北端有一翼闊身嘅向後伸到沙浦道，兩頭都係斜切，同天台平面圖一樣。
  • 主樓：每個長面都係一條條深色玻璃同啡色窗間牆，兩頭係實心磚牆加一行細窗，頂上有一圈深啡色簷口。
  • 平台：磚砌，舖面上面有一條深色玻璃帶，臨街嗰面寫住酒店名，沿街有個種滿植物嘅露台。
  • 天台：平頂，有機房設備同一個圓水缸。
由上面直望酒店天台：一條長翼沿住馬路，一頭有一翼闊啲嘅，行人天橋過馬路去停車場。
由上面望天台平面，同埋去停車場嘅行人天橋。
喺九龍城嗰邊望酒店背面，兩翼砌成 L 形，後面係停車場、客運大樓同跑道。
喺九龍城嗰邊望，機場喺後面。

行人天橋同夜景

有蓋行人天橋而家喺平台東北端附近接駁，同相片一樣。夜晚啲房間隨機着燈，端牆同平台上面嘅酒店名會發光。

夜晚嘅酒店：零星暖色同冷色嘅窗燈，平台上嘅酒店名發光，行人天橋喺黑暗之中。
夜晚：房間着燈，酒店名發光。

資料來源：富豪啟德酒店嘅相片同天台平面圖，同埋 Gwulo 上面關於啟德機場酒店行人天橋嘅頁面。

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